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noun

ˈbra-gərt How to pronounce braggart (audio)
Definition of braggartnext
as in cock
someone who boasts a braggart who was always talking about how much money he made

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braggart

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adjective

as in boastful

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Recent Examples of braggart
Noun
Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025 Still, Kimmel never came off as a braggart. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Big Red might be a braggart, a bully and rotten to the core, but Lasdun invokes Thomas De Quincey’s neat point about how a man’s capacity to rob says nothing about his propensity to murder. — Literary Hub, 25 June 2026 Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic. — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for braggart
Recent Examples of Synonyms for braggart
  1. blower
  2. boastful
  3. brag
  4. cocky
  5. braggadocio
  6. swaggering
  7. blowhard
  8. conceited
Noun
  • The cookline handwash sink didn’t have paper towels or a blower.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Individual pipes are manually added or removed from the organ to change chords, and the sustained sound of the piece is produced through an electric blower system that forces air into the pipes.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of blower
Adjective
  • Hoult’s Gilderoy Lockhart a notoriously vain, boastful and fame-obsessed wizard well versed in Memory Charms who is recruited by Dumbledore as Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Defense witnesses pointed to boastful teens, fireworks-like flashes and uncertain ignition points, with an expert arguing that fireworks were the likely cause and that prosecutors lack proof that a lighter sparked the blaze.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of boastful
Noun
  • Harvind Singh, the CEO of a consulting engineering firm in Chicago, didn't start keeping a brag log until mid-career.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 21 July 2026
  • But not even Footer’s thorough sleuthing has unearthed much more than Bradley’s brag.
    — Brian Seibert, New Yorker, 13 May 2026
Definition of brag
Adjective
  • Joe Jonas as Shane Gray Since his days as the cocky but lovable Shane Gray in Camp Rock, Joe Jonas has carved out a multifaceted career.
    — Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Aug. 2026
  • He’s known for his cocky attitude, teaming up with fellow hero Blue Beetle and traveling with his robot companion Skeets.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 31 July 2026
Definition of cocky
Noun
  • The early going featured the braggadocio of the comfortably entrenched.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The 1989 movie portrayed this area as quaint and quiet where practicality and a handshake replace braggadocio.
    — Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of braggadocio
Adjective
  • Olivia Wilde plays the swaggering multidisciplinary artist Erika Tracy, whose portfolio includes a pointillist vulva composed of chewed gum, an audio loop of her own orgasm, and an enormous, Claes Oldenburg-esque sculpture of a spiked fetish collar.
    — Holden Seidlitz, New Yorker, 26 July 2026
  • Unlike the swaggering Daemon, this wounded Aemond is vulnerable.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of swaggering
Noun
  • Then there's this guy who goes out and acts like a blowhard with crazy quotes.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The fictional host was fashioned largely after Fox News blowhard Bill O’Reilly.
    — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
Definition of blowhard
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Johnson reprises his role as Moana's bantering reluctant partner, the shapeshifting trickster demigod Maui, alongside Jemaine Clement again voicing the conceited giant crustacean Tamatoa.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
  • Avoid Burying Praise in Negatives To avoid making children too conceited, parents might bury praise in the midst of negatives.
    — Wayne Parker, Parents, 8 Mar. 2026
Definition of conceited

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